The brain is fun to study, and here students and teachers can get ideas for classroom activities, experiments, and supplies to learn more about the brain.
What is neuroscience?
Neuroscience is the study of your brain and nervous system.
Resources for Teachers and Parent Educators
Did you know that when the human brain is awake it produces enough electricity to power a small light bulb?
Learn more interesting and fascinating facts about the human brain with resources made available by learning level.
Pre-K
Engage and excite students with these sensory activities and videos that introduce them to how senses are connected to the brain.
Kindergarten–Second Grade
These activities and lessons help students begin to understand the basic functions of the human brain.
- Simple Ways to Explain the Brain
- Learn and Summarize Brain Basics
- Hands-on Sensory Experiments
- Simple Sensory Activities
Third–Fifth Grade
Students begin to dive deeper into learning about the brain through these lessons and websites.
- Non-fiction Text
- Parts of the Brain Text and Web Activities
- Explore What a Migraine Is
- Teach Students About How the Brain Learns
- Brain Pre-test and Post-test
- Brain Explorers
Sixth–Eighth Grade
This set of activities will give students a chance to better understand specific neuroscience concepts and structures of the brain.
- Neuroscience Concepts and Activities
- Brain Interactive Notebook Activities
- Animation About Brain Structures
- Brain Worksheets and Lessons
- Fun and Current Neuroscience Resources
Ninth–Twelfth Grade
High school students can explore the complexity of the brain and the parts that make it work well or can lead to illness.
- Discover the Complexity of the Brain
- Neurological and Brain Disease Web Quest
- Neurons, Nervous System, and the Brain Lesson
- Explore All Aspects of the Brain and Nervous System
- Fun and Current Neuroscience Resources
